Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Walter E. Fernald
Superintendent, Massachusetts School for the Feebleminded
Centurion, 1919–1924
Proposed by
Walter B. James and Franklin B. Kirkbride
Walter B. James and Franklin B. Kirkbride
born
February 11, 1859
Kittery, Maine
Kittery, Maine
died
November 26, 1924
Waverly, Massachusetts
Waverly, Massachusetts
elected
June 7, 1919
Age sixty
Age sixty
buried
Mount Auburn Cemetery,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Century Memorial
Walter Elmore Fernald had made the care and cure of mental disease his life-work. During the unusually long period of thirty-seven years he had been Superintendent of the Massachusetts School for Feeble-Minded; teaching and lecturing in the meantime on his specialty at Harvard, Tufts, and elsewhere. Because of Dr. Fernald’s residence outside New York, and the recent date of his admission to the Century, he was not widely known in the Club; but he had made his mark on his profession.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1925 Century Association Yearbook